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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Food for thought IV

Continuing
where I left off in the previous
blog entry of the series Food for thought, the accuracy of
supplying water, nutrients, negative ions and oxygen is possible when
a closed system contains the plants' roots. It is similar to the
closed environment in soil, which is also separated from the above
ground part of the plant. The big advantage of aeroponics is that the
closed system can be conditioned not to contain pathogenic bacteri or
fungi. This is a huge advantage, because it allows plants to dedicate
all their energy to growing, which results in faster growth and
higher yields.

Indoor
growing makes aeroponics independent from seasons, rough weather and
daylight sequence. Thus optimal conditions can be maintained
perpetually, which also contributes to faster growth and higher
yields than is possible with outdoor soil based growing. Supplying
the exact correct amount of all substances and light of the correct
frequency, relieves the plants from working hard to find food or
absorb light, while unwanted substances, parasites or damaging wind,
excessive quantities of (contaminated) rain can be prevented.

Of
course there is a price for regulating all those things – the rent
or lease cost of the facility and the powering of the supply systems
– but the benefits of indoor aeroponic growing far outweigh the
disadvantages, especially if the largest part of the power
requirements of these systems can run on 12 volts. This means the
power can be supplied from batteries which makes aeroponic systems
excellently suited to survive power outages or fit to be run in
places where there is no power distribution grid present.

Indoor
growing also allows to stack various layers of growing surface on top
of each other, which is another feature that makes aeroponics more
efficient than traditional outdoor soil based growing. Logistic costs
could therefore also be reduced significantly, because indoor
facilities can be located closer to or inside consumer residential
areas. It also cuts on worker's commuter costs.

Not
using soil as a medium also does away with the problems caused by
monoculture agriculture. Apart from shielding harvests against rough
weather, radioactive fallout (like caused by Chernobyl and Fukushima)
has no effect on aeroponic growing facilities. The controllable
environment also greatly reduces the risk of hazardous outbreaks like
the EHEC bacterie or similar diseases and contaminations. Theft
obviously is also less likely to harm indoor growing set ups.

The
absence of the (artificially created) necessity of supplying
pesticides results in healthier produce that has a far better taste.
Since plants have the capacity to learn, consequent generations will
have an increasingly strong immune syste, that is a free bonus from
aeroponic growing. Aeroponically grown produce has no soil clumps
around the roots, which means it can be used straight away in
kitchens without cleaning.

There
are further developments that are still in the research phase at
isocult that are related to automating and enhancing the growing
system with advanced technologies that are rarely or not at all used
in set ups that we know of. These will allow to even increase the
growing pace, size of the yields and level of health of the plants.
The isocult system is built in modules that can be combined, which
allows farmers to gradually 'upgrade' their aeroponic systems,
allowing them to maintain a profit margin that allows them to remain
in business.

Contact
us by clicking here or through our website that you will find at: http://isocult.com
for further information. We are looking for investors that want to
become part of the next phase in the agricultural revolution. We
intend to create a system that allows those who put in the effort to
benefit from their labor and provide consumers healthy and tasty
food.